What is RAINS?
The Rains Research Assistant Program supports faculty research by providing financial support for faculty to hire a student research assistant. In addition, the program allows students to develop research experiences and close collaborations with their faculty and other members of their research group.
This program is available to all full-time tenured & tenure-track faculty. Faculty members on a leave of absence are not eligible.
NOTICE: Please click "How to Apply" for additional information and the Rains application.
PLEASE NOTE THAT RAINS has multiple submission and review dates. These dates are not strict deadlines, but should be used by faculty as guidelines on when they will hear back about their applications. The date of faculty submission (not Chair approval) will be considered for review dates.
- Submissions submitted by May 2, 2022 will be reviewed by May 11, 2022
- Submissions submitted by May 31, 2022 will be reviewed by June 15, 2022
- Submissions submitted by August 22, 2022 will be reviewed by September 5, 2022
- Submissions submitted by September 14, 2022 will be reviewed by September 28, 2022
Note: If there are remaining funds, applications submitted after September 14 will be reviewed by November 14, 2022 and February 3, 2023.
